Here I am, late on my blog again, but I have great excuses. Over the last month we finalized the sale of our Huntsville house and finished the excruciatingly painful job of removing 27 years from the house my children were raised in. It was a little sad, but after about 14 months on the market, we had said our good-byes. And living at the lake full-time is a happy thing.
Another time-consuming but WAY more fun event just ended. It was YaYa Family Fun Week at the lake with some of my grade-school friends and their families. You may call me crazy, but I enjoy having a dozen+ people stay at my house for 5-7 days. Of course their visit included a garden tour, and I was amazed when Noella’s 8th grade niece opened the notes app on her phone and asked me how to spell Pennisetum.
Pennisetum ‘Princess Caroline’
I know it is one of the best plants in my garden, and you can read the article I wrote about it in the September 2012 issue of Alabama Gardener Magazine, but 8th grade girls are only interested in boys and what they are wearing to the party and if someone is mad at them…and boys. I know this because I still have the NOTEbook that Lorie and I used in 8th grade. I found it when I was cleaning the Huntsville house. Lorie and I were in different classes and exchanged the NOTEbook when we passed in the hall. Monica performed a dramatic reading of the NOTEbook for Lorie and I during family fun week. This has nothing to do with gardening, but I can’t resist posting a few entrees:
“Hi Lorie, Brenda keeps asking me who I like better Allen or Rob, and I honestly don’t know….I decided to wear my high-waisted jeans and my new shirt. Peggy”
“Peggy, How the hell should I know which one you like better? I think you like Rob better. I don’t know what I’m wearing. Lorie”
See? We were not the least bit interested in plants. So I thought it might be interesting to see what other plants momentarily distracted 8th grade girls from boys, and here’s their other favorites.
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Chocolate mint
I’m sure this first one made the list for its culinary quality and not its stunning good looks. It’s the chocolate mint planted in the lower right corner of Monica’s old grill.
The girls couldn’t remember the name of the next one, but I knew what they meant when they called it, “the poisonous one”.
Castor Bean is highly toxic.
Also on their list was this wonderful native magnolia tree. The enormous leaves give it a great tropical feel. Mother Nature planted several on the property.
Thanks for picking out such great plants Gabriela and Mylene! See you next year. And if you think that magnolia is fabulous now, you should have seen the May blooms.
